And her child was caught up unto God, and to his throne." Every student of true Christian Science who has discerned Principle, and entered in any degree into the deep things of God, has seen that Divine Science is the "child" that the dragon stood ready to devour "as soon as it was born." The more they have, through love for and obedience to the impersonal demands of Principle, received the promised revelations of God, the more unmistakably clear becomes the fact that to-day is being fulfilled the vision of the Revelator. What courage, hope, assurance, comes when this vision begins to unfold! While the "third part of the stars of heaven" are being "cast to the earth," and dismay would possess the hearts of those who "keep the commandments of God, and have the testimony of Jesus Christ," the farther sight is given them, that "her child was caught up unto God, and to his throne," beyond reach of all mortal claims to harm or hinder, and the woman also "hath a place prepared of God," where she "is nourished."
How this recognition dwarfs every claim to power of the "dragon and his angels"! How petty the efforts of open or secret foes to harm, or even threaten, the Divine Child! How presumptuous the conceit that supposes for a moment, that any mortal man is needed to help God to protect that which is "caught up to God and to His throne," out of reach of mortal foe in every guise! The "Child" has now come "without sin;" a Light — not veiled by flesh, but set on the Eternal Hill, Science — shining steadily, a sure guide to the feet of all who look up. Surely darkness can never again come upon the face of the earth, for now there is no veil before the "holy of holies," and the Light now radiates unobstructed from the "Throne of God."
The world suffering from the bite of vipers, is no longer asked to look upon a brazen serpent held aloft upon a rod, neither is it told to look upon a material conception of Christ nailed to an"accursed tree." Instead, it is now bade to look to the Throne (understanding) of God for all the blessedness of the healing and leading that Moses foreshadowed; the knowledge and freedom that Jesus revealed; the full salvation from all error — the self, the world, the flesh, the devil — which he prophetically promised to all who "keep the commandments of God" and have His testimony.
